potential and used images; endpapers; permissions needed for publication

Note

see also computer zip disks 1 and 2 [Box 3, Item 3]

Series 2.
Chronology and Publishing History of Hern&#x00E1;ndez Texts:
Mexico
1571-1615

Physical Description: 18 folders

Scope and Content Note

the subseries, which group Hern&amp;#x00E1;ndez texts and translations
geographically and chronologically, are based on the order established by Varey
for vol. 1 of the Hern&amp;#x00E1;ndez Project, "The Mexican Treasury" ed.
by Simon Varey, Stanford, 2000; see also computer disks [Box 3]

Subseries 1.
Instructions and Letters to the King and the Will of Francisco
Hernández
1572-1581

Physical Description: 2 folders

Box 1, Folder 12

Letters to the King (Philip II).1572-1581

Scope and Content Note

six letters from Hernández and one from his geographer, Francisco
Dominguez, to the King, photocopied from: "Celeccion de documentos
inéditos para la historia de España", by Don Martin Fernandez
Navarrete, et al., vol. 1, 1842; bits of Varey's English translation on the
back

Box 1, Folder 13

Francisco Hernández's will.1578, 1929

Scope and Content Note

photocopy of the holograph will; photocopy of a Spanish-language article

Subseries 2.
"The Antiquities of New Spain" and "Index Medicamentorum"16th-17th cent.

Physical Description: 7 folders

Box 1, Folder 14

"The Antiquities of New Spain".

Scope and Content Note

photocopies from an unidentified publication of "How Mexican women give
birth..." and "Doctors called titici", in English and Spanish; article on "The
Antiquities...", from "Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanico", vol. XVII(2),
1993

Box 1, Folder 15

Francisco Hernández: "Materia medicinal de la nueua
España".
ca. 1576

Scope and Content Note

photocopied pages from a manuscript in Spanish; notes for a "Viator" article;
photocopy of letter from Miguel Figueroa to Prof. Chabrán

Note

materials are from a folder labeled: "Mss: Madrid Jardìn
Botanico Complutense 6.151 Her"; the notes pertain to Univ. Complutense mss.
#624: Hernández "Materia medicinal..." but the photocopied mss. pages do
not match the online images of that work; Mss. 6.151 Her and the photocopied
pages remain unidentified; see text on p. 8 of "The Mexican Treasury"

Index to the plants, animals and minerals in the works of Francisco
Hernández.

Scope and Content Note

typed drafts of lists of plants, animals, and minerals described by
Hernández, noting locations in the various versions of his works

Box 1, Folder 23

Index to the plants in Hernández's "Quatro
libros".

Scope and Content Note

drafts of extensive tables of Náhuatl species names, noting their
locations in 11 versions of his works

Box 1, Folder 24

Index of Náhuatl and scientific plant names, uses.

Scope and Content Note

drafts of: 1) an extensive table of Náhuatl names from the "Obras
completas", their scientific equivalents, and uses; 2) table of 212 plants
(names not given) and their uses in Barrios, López and Recchi; additional
notes and photocopies

Petiver's marginal annotations, concerned largely with
Hernández, are found in the UCLA Clark Library copy of Nieremberg and the
1658 Piso/Marcgraf volume in the British Library; see also Box 2 Folder
8

Box 1, Folder 32

Christophe Plantin (1520-1589).

Scope and Content Note

photocopies of articles; notes on visit to Plantin Museum archives

Note

Plantin was the Antwerp printer who published Nieremberg's "Historia
naturae...; he undertook a number of commissions for Philip II

Box 1, Folder 33

Antonio de León Pinelo (1590/91?-1660).

Scope and Content Note

photocopies of title page and contents of: "Epitome de la biblioteca oriental
i occidental...", Madrid, 1629; various notes

Note

Léon Pinelo had seen manuscript volumes of Hernández's
work on the plants of New Spain

typed Latin extract from Wellcome Institute copy of the "Opera" and English
listing of volume contents; book review of a volume about the "Historia"

Box 2, Folder 11

Francisco Hernández: "Ad ariam Montanum...".

Scope and Content Note

photocopy of printed Latin text of Hernández's poem, from the preface
of the "Opera", published by Gómez Ortega, with portrait of Benito Arias
Montano (1527-1598); FAX of an article by Tarsicio Herrera Zapién: "Los
valores del poema latino de Hernández" (no source indicated), with poem's
Spanish translation; page proofs and reprint of an article by Chabrán and
Varey including the poem's English translation (in: "The Huntington Library
Quarterly", 55(4):621-634, 1992)

Muñoz discovered some drafts of Hernández's manuscripts
in Madrid and alerted Casimiro Gómez Ortega, who edited the "Opera",
Madrid, 1790

Series 7.
Commentaries on Hernández' s Works and Influence18th-20th cent.

Physical Description: 2 folders

Box 2, Folder 14

18th and 19th century articles.

Note

in German and English

Box 2, Folder 15

20th century articles.

Scope and Content Note

includes an article by Varey and Chabrán: "Medical natural history in
the Renaissance: the strange case of Francisco Hernández"

Note

in Spanish and English

Series 8.
Medicine and Medicinal Plants in the New World16th-20th cent.

Physical Description: 15 folders

Scope and Content Note

indexes and descriptions of plants, especially those thought to be
therapeutic, with special attention to chocolate, coffee, tea, and tobacco. Some
materials refer to animals and other organic substances that had medicinal uses;
see also computer disks [Box 3]

photocopy of 74 p. introduction by Jose Maria Lopez Piñero to
Monardes' "Historia..."; 10 pages of beginning of English translation of
Monardes: "Ioyfull newes out of the new-found vvorlde...", possibly from the
1590 ed.; notes

narrow scope; the overwhelming bulk of these materials pertains to the
Hern&amp;#x00E1;ndez Project

Box 2, Folder 48

Obituaries.2003

Scope and Content Note

from "Viva Vox: the Newsletter of the UCLA Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies", 5(1): 9, 2002/03 and from "The Center and Clark Newsletter
On Line" no. 39, Spring, 2002; also, short hiring announcement from the
California Science Center, 2001

Box 2, Folder 49

Translations, editorial tasks, and other documents.

Scope and Content Note

photocopies or original pages from Michael Florent van Langren's "La
verdadera longitud por mar y tierra...", 1644, with drafts and final translation
from Spanish, Latin and French by Simon Varey; correspondence; some edited
manuscript pages